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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Musée Rodin (Paris, Île-de-France, France)en_US
dc.coverage.temporalcast 1926 (other); designed 1884-1895 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorRodin, Augusteen_US
dc.date1884-1895en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-06T15:08:13Z
dc.date.available2015-01-06T15:08:13Z
dc.date.issued1884-1895en_US
dc.identifier256149en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3018en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/172101
dc.descriptionDetail, figure of Eustache de Saint-Pierre; In late 1884 Rodin secured the civic commission for a monument to the Burghers of Calais who in 1347 had offered their lives to the English in return for ending their siege. Although commissioned to depict only the leading burgher, Eustache de Saint-Pierre, Rodin decided to show all six, realizing each individually, first nude and then draped, in progressively larger stages, until the final scale of 2 m in height. Grouped one behind another in a ring, these gaunt figures express indecision as much as self-sacrifice. Before 1917 three more casts were made, one of which was purchased in 1911 by the National Art Collections Fund for the Victoria Tower Gardens, London (Rodin envisaged this monument high on a pedestal, silhouetted against the Houses of Parliament). There are eight additional casts and many bronzes of the individual burghers. This group is considered one of the 12 "original" casts (the limited edition set forth in the French Intellectual Property Code); cast in 1926 and given to the museum in 1955. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/11/2014)en_US
dc.format.mediumbronzeen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjecthistoricalen_US
dc.subjecthuman figureen_US
dc.subjectmilitary or waren_US
dc.subjectHundred Years Waren_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.titleBurghers of Calais [Musée Rodin Cast]en_US
dc.title.alternativeLes Bourgeois de Calaisen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode7A1-RA-BC_1-A24en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniquemodeling (forming), casting (process)en_US
vra.worktypesculpture (visual work)en_US
vra.worktypemonumenten_US
dc.contributor.displayAuguste Rodin (French sculptor, 1840-1917)en_US


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